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A lot of educators understand the reading and writing are related,

but I think educators, we need to have really precise understanding about it.

So we need to have a good mental model about how they're related and why

they're related. This is Susan Lambert and welcome to Science of Reading the podcast from

Amplify. What is a theoretical model? And how can a theoretical model be useful to practitioners?

That's at the heart of today's conversation with Dr. Young-Suk Grace Kim,

a former classroom teacher who's now a professor at the School of Education at the University of California at Irvine.

Dr. Kim has developed the interactive dynamic literacy model,

all about how and why reading and writing are related.

Throughout this three-part writing miniseries,

we've been building to this episode,

and we're now ready to unpack Dr. Kim's model for explaining the connection

between reading and writing. A heads up, Dr. Kim is going to use the analogy of a house

to describe the reading-writing relationship. As she'll mention, there's actually a great visual

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